Documentation to "My Case"

June 5, 2006

Lori L. Pack
Office of the Attorney General
300 Motor Parkway
Suite 205
Hauppauge, New York 11788

Re: Tibor Gasparik vs. Stony Brook University
CV 05-03817 (SJF/ARL)


Dear Ms. Pack:

Now that the discovery issues have been concluded, I would like to propose our participation in the mediation program available in the Eastern District of New York pursuant Local Civil Rule 83.11.

Please let me know if you would be interested in considering this option.


Respectfully yours,


Tibor Gasparik
Plaintiff pro se and
Research Associate Professor
352 Plad Blvd
Holtsville, NY 11742
(631) 447-2168


cc.: The District Judge, Honorable Sandra J. Feuerstein

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Dear Colleague,

In view of the upcoming trial in my civil rights case against the Stony Brook University, I am asking you to provide information that could be helpful in this case. I would appreciate any evidence, documentation, testimony, statement, e-mail, or letter of support that could be useful in proving my allegations. Since my case has potentially nationwide ramifications for the future of science, education and national security in this country, I believe that it is your duty as a concerned scientist, educator and citizen of the United States to respond to this appeal. All information concerning this case has been posted on the Web site: “Discrimination in Academia” (http://suny-stonybrook.blogspot.com/). The Web site can also be located by a blog search on Google under my full name. Please respond, if possible, by the end of July. Thank you in advance for your kind attention to this request.

Respectfully yours,
Tibor Gasparik
Research Associate Professor

Tibor Gasparik
352 Plad Blvd
Holtsville, NY 11742


This appeal was sent to the scientific community in June 2006.
From 70 recipients, the following 67 did not respond:

Carl Agee, Thomas Ahrens, Don Anderson, Ross Angel, Mark Barton, Jay Bass, William Bassett, John Bender, Steven Bohlen, Michael Brown, William Carlson, Robert Clayton, Robert Downs, Michael Drake, Thomas Duffy, Sonia Esperanca, Martin Fisk, Richard Gordon, Timothy Grove, Gabriel Gwanmesia, Stephen Haggerty, Robert Hazen, Richard Hervig, Claude Herzberg, Greg Herth, David Jenkins, James Kirkpatrick, David Kohlstedt, Theodore Labotka, David Lambert, Charles Langmuir, Kurt Leinenweber, John Longhi, David Moecher, Tony Morse, Peter Nabelek, Robert Newton, Richard O’Connell, James Papike, Dean Presnall, Charles Prewitt, Robert Rapp, Robin Reichlin, Kevin Righter, Mark Rivers, Peter Robinson, Barbara Romanowicz, David Rowley, Nancy Ross, Malcolm Rutherford, Surendra Saxena, Thomas Shankland, Thomas Sharp, Warren Sharp, Nobumichi Shimizu, Steven Shirey, Paul Silver, Joe Smyth, Frank Spera, Jonathan Stebbins, Steven Sutton, Lawrence Taylor, Cliff Thurber, Jim Tyburczy, Richard Walker, Bruce Watson, Peter Wyllie.

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1. I was employed from April 1, 1985, to January 31, 2002, as Lab Manager and Research Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University.
2. I have always received the highest evaluations and performed research at the levels that could be rated among the best in the world by any standards of scholarly achievement. This was summarized in the document: “Credentials and Accomplishments” (E – “D”) and the supporting documentation (E – 61-100).
3. However, for most of my employment, I was subject to a series of hostile actions by my superiors, employees of the University, with the clear intention of making my work difficult and life miserable and thus to force me to leave my employment. This was summarized in the document: “Account of my Persecution” (E – “A”) and the supporting documentation (E – 1-60).
4. When these actions failed, I was dismissed on January 31, 2002, in gross violation of my true seniority status, under the excuse that “the project has ended” (E-28).
5. Yet, despite being the most senior and most valuable and accomplished scientist among all scientists participating in the project (E-29/1), and could be rated as one of the best faculty members (E-29/2), I was the only one dismissed under this excuse.
6. Although, I retained my position as Research Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences, the University would not consider me for any employment that could provide a salary.
7. Attempts to secure research funding and salary from the National Science Foundation (NSF) were sabotaged by my former superiors at the Department (E-33). This has also become evident from the fact that the NSF stopped sending me research proposal for review immediately following my dismissal (E-35).
8. My complaints to the Provost (E-38) and President (E-40, E-52) of the Stony Brook University were stonewalled.
9. To obtain an alternative source of income, I completed at the same University a Masters of Art in Teaching (MAT) degree in Earth Science in May 2005, and hoped to start a new career as secondary school teacher (E-63).
10. I was promised a leave of replacement position at Ralph G. Reed Middle School in Central Islip, following completion of all requirements and satisfactory performance as student teacher between March and May 2005 (E – “E”).
11. The University promised to expedite the certification process following satisfactory completion of all requirements. Instead, the University delayed issuing a letter to that effect, which resulted in the loss of this employment opportunity (E – “F”).
12. When I posted, at the end of June 2005, a Web site summarizing my persecution, the University and the Department retaliated, in violation of the First Amendment, by taking my name off the list of faculty members posted on the departmental Web site, and ordered me to vacate my office at the Department (E-59).
13. Because this action made it extremely difficult or nearly impossible for me to continue in my efforts to secure research funding, further contribute to the advancement of science, and restart my former career as scientist and professor, I was forced to seek justice through the legal system and filed a complaint at the United States District Court in Central Islip on August 11, 2005 (E-60).
14. For many years I searched in vain for an explanation for the startling discrepancy between my superior performance and accomplishments as a scientist (E – “D”), and the indifferent or hostile behavior by my colleagues at the Department of Geosciences (E – “A”)
15. Several of my colleagues at the Department devoted extraordinary amounts of time and effort to a single goal: forcing me to leave.
16. In the last few years, it has become obvious that most universities and colleges in the United States discriminate against conservative professors in hiring, retention and promotion (E – “G”, E – “H”).
17. This fact is based on surveys, voter registration records and voting records (E – “I”).
18. Stony Brook University has a record of belonging to more extreme of the institutions of higher education in its liberal policies and liberal bias.
19. For example, only 18% of the university employees voted for President Bush in the last presidential elections on November 2, 2004 (E- “J”).
20. I have never tried to hide my conservative views nor my record of voting for Republican candidates, but cannot name any faculty member or other university professor who is not a liberal.
21. I do not even have the option of pretending to be a liberal, because it is widely known among my peers in the scientific community that I am a refugee from communism; in fact, I am a registered Republican.
22. I believe the forgoing to be the primary reason for the discrimination against me in hiring, retention and promotion, and for the acts of persecution by my colleagues at the Department, university administrators, and other members of the scientific community.
23. The Stony Brook University, by the above-described actions, discriminated against me, dismissed me from employment, and took other adverse personnel actions against me because of my political orientation.
24. By reason of the forgoing, the Stony Brook University is liable for unlawful discrimination against me in violation of the Right to Free Speech and Freedom of Association under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and for violation of 42 U.S.C. sections 1983, 1985-6.
25. By reason of the forgoing, I suffered, and continue to suffer, loss in employment, loss in wages, have suffered metal anguish, emotional distress and loss of enjoyment of life, and have incurred damages thereby.
26. By reason of the forgoing, the Stony Brook University is liable to me for compensatory damages, attorney’s fees, expenses, and punitive damages.